When I swung open the door to our small house, I immediately felt a wave of something embrace me. I soon heard sobbing from the kitchen.

"What do y-y-you mean she ran o-o-off? Please I-"

"Mom?" I called, and I could hear Amanda hang up the phone.

"Zero! Where are you?" She started walking towards the entrance way. 

"Right here..." I immediately noticed her mascara flowing down her face. "Mom, what hap-"

"It's Patte, baby." she said, wiping off her tears. "She-she-"

"What happened to Ma?!"

"Baby... she died..."